Combat Power Soars to 328,000 Points

But now...

He closed his eyes and sensed the surging information deep within his mind. An unprecedented flame ignited in his eyes—the confidence that he would eventually break through the wall that confined him.

Just one copy of the Divine Martial Battle Art had already transformed every Saiyan on the Divine Martial Battle Star!

This technique had actually been created by Barros after merging the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic with the bone-forging section of the Nine Yin Manual, then adding his own insights accumulated over many years. As for how effective it truly was, even he had never made a definite claim.

The spaceship tore through the deep starry curtain like a silver streak.

As it swept through the boundless sea of stars, a sharp, piercing aura silently spread in its wake.

Boom!!

A thunderous explosion suddenly erupted, reverberating through the eternal silence of space.

Inside the gravity chamber, the air currents churned.

Huff—huff—huff—!

Heavy breaths, like the bellowing of oxen, rose and fell, echoing off the walls.

Bardock, Jiyande, and more than a dozen elite Saiyans stood a few steps away from Barros, their clothes soaked through with sweat and their chests heaving violently. They fixed their eyes on the calm and composed Barros, exchanged glances, and charged again without hesitation!

The corners of Barros's lips lifted slightly. He stood still and allowed them to surround and attack him. His expression remained calm, and not even his clothes stirred; meanwhile, Bardock and the others threw punches that howled through the air, their faces flushed red. The contrast between them was like heaven and earth.

Barros shifted his body, nimbly evading Bardock's fierce, explosive straight punch. Then he struck out with a backhanded palm, the force of the blow whipping up a gale and sending Bardock flying several meters away.

In an instant, Jiyande and another elite Saiyan attacked from both sides, both legs chopping down together like falling axes. Their kicks tore through the air with a piercing shriek that made one's scalp tighten.

With a casual sweep of his gaze, Barros suddenly exerted force beneath his feet. His figure moved so fast that only an afterimage remained, and in the blink of an eye, he slipped behind the two of them. His fists shot out like lightning—Bang! Bang! With two muffled impacts, Jiyande and the other Saiyan were sent flying, crashing heavily into the cabin wall.

No sooner had Bardock and Jiyande been knocked back than the remaining Saiyans swarmed forward. Yet without exception, every one of them met the same fate.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!

A series of dull impacts exploded in rapid succession. More than a dozen figures were flung into the air almost simultaneously, tumbling into a tangled heap.

Barros had held back with great precision. Although everyone had been beaten until they lost their ability to fight, not a single one had suffered a broken bone or serious internal injury.

After all, Earth was only a little over a month away.

He had no intention of crippling them now, only to find himself short-handed later and forced to personally deal with all those trivial matters.

But just as Barros raised his hand to shut down the gravity chamber and end the trial—

Bardock actually staggered back to his feet. Clenching his teeth and coughing up bloody foam, he growled, "Your Majesty... I can still fight! Cough... Ultimate Destruction Bomb!"

A blazing white sphere of energy rapidly gathered in his palm once more. Barros glanced sideways, his gaze darkening slightly.

The Ultimate Destruction Bomb itself was not worth a second look from him. What truly moved him was Bardock's ruthless determination to fight to the bitter end—as if he would never let go or admit defeat until every last ounce of strength had been drained from him!

Before his words had even faded, the glowing white energy bomb shot toward Barros's chest with a piercing shriek.

Time flew by, and another half month passed in the blink of an eye.

It had now been nearly two months since Barros gave Bardock the memory infusion device.

Over these two months, Bardock's once-stagnant battle power began to rise steadily;

the madness and fighting spirit deep in his bones also grew fiercer by the day.

Barros rarely made a move, but Bardock challenged Jiyande and all the Saiyans to solo fights every day, never slacking off.

He deliberately suppressed his battle power, maintaining it only at a level comparable to Jiyande and the others;

yet even when facing more than ten opponents alone, including all the strongest fighters led by Jiyande, he still fought himself to exhaustion every time. In the end, they either fought to a draw or both sides were left badly battered.

Because of this, Jiyande and the others were thoroughly provoked as well, desperately pushing themselves beyond their limits—

Some even forced themselves to train under gravity at the very edge of their limits, enduring until their skin split open and blood soaked through their combat suits before staggering out of the gravity chamber and rushing to the medical pods for treatment.

And this almost self-destructive madness brought astonishing rewards:

They repeatedly tempered their bodies in the gravity chamber, forcing out their potential and forcibly raising the upper limit of their battle power;

even while lying in healing fluid, they continued circulating the Divine Martial Battle Art without pause, their consciousness never resting and their arduous cultivation never ceasing.

In just sixty days, every elite Saiyan traveling with them had broken through the 100,000 battle power mark;

Jiyande had even approached 200,000, soaring to third place on the Saiyan battle power rankings, surpassed only by Barros's family and Bardock himself.

As for Bardock, his improvement was even more terrifying.

Using the Divine Martial Bone-Forging Art personally taught to him by Barros, he tempered his sinews and bones through countless real battles, remolding his innate talent;

after two months, his battle power had surged to 328,000, leaving him only a hair's breadth behind Xuesaili.

Of course, as the spaceship drew ever closer to Earth, Barros forcibly ordered him to suspend his training—otherwise, given Bardock's reckless momentum, he might very well have surpassed the Xuesaili of the time when they left the Divine Martial Battle Star before they even arrived, provided he kept at it for another week.

Earth.

A water-blue planet on the edge of the Milky Way.

It was also the lowest-ranking and most inconspicuous corner of this universe, where strength determined everything and battle power defined one's class!

Looking at the azure planet beyond the porthole, both familiar and distant, Barros felt a trace of daze rise in his heart.

He quickly crushed the emotion.

He knew better than anyone that this Earth was not the Earth he knew. Though the terrain was similar and the name was the same, time and space had long since been overturned. It was absolutely not the blue mother planet he had once set foot upon before crossing over.

At that moment, a Saiyan piloting the spaceship hurried forward, dropped to one knee, lowered his head, and respectfully asked, "Great Emperor, we have reached the target star system. Shall we land immediately?"

Barros nodded. "Land."

As the spaceship dove like a meteor, Bardock's wife, Gine, clenched her fists. Her eyes grew warm, and her fingertips trembled—

Soon... she would soon see her second son.

Kakarot!

Bardock stared at the steadily approaching blue planet. Old memories flickered deep within his eyes, followed by an indescribable glimmer.

Magic Fist... could it truly glimpse the future?

He suddenly raised his head and glanced at Barros, who stood not far ahead. The old warning from the people of Kanaron Planet had long been cast from his mind. His lips curled into an undisguised sneer.

Earth, the Temple.

The current God, Old Piccolo, leaned on his staff, his forehead and robes drenched in cold sweat.

Before the spaceship had even landed, the pressure from beyond the heavens had already surged in like a tide—bone-chillingly sinister, like rotting breath spewing from a rift in the abyss; murderous intent towering to the skies, like an ocean formed from billions of piled corpses.

God and Popo both went weak in the knees, nearly collapsing to the ground.

Never in their lives had they encountered such a terrifying aura.

Even Demon Piccolo, once regarded as a grave threat, was as insignificant as grass or an ant before this overwhelming pressure.

Below the Temple, atop Korin Tower.

Korin looked up at the shadow drawing ever closer in the sky. A chill ran down his spine, and his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

Why had beings so wicked yet possessed of supreme domineering might descended upon Earth together?

The next instant, Korin, God, and Popo all shuddered violently, as if struck by lightning—

The Dragon Balls!!

On this planet, the only thing worthy of drawing such powerful beings was those seven legendary Dragon Balls!

At that thought, bead-sized drops of cold sweat rolled down God's forehead.

Though they had no solid proof, all three were already certain in their hearts: there was an eighty to ninety percent chance that this was for the Dragon Balls.

For a moment, God's heart sank heavily, and he regretted ever creating something as heaven-defying as the Dragon Balls!!

Yet God, Popo, and Korin had all thought too shallowly. They had underestimated Barros and overestimated the value of the Earth Dragon Balls.

Though Earth's Dragon Balls possessed miraculous effects, compared to the original ones on Planet Namek, they were worlds apart—the latter were the true treasures capable of rewriting life and death and overturning fate.

If the Planet Namek Dragon Balls were here, then Barros's purpose would indeed be just as they had guessed.

But Earth's few Dragon Balls alone were not worth abandoning everything and traveling all this way to Earth.

What he truly had his sights set on were the Senzu Beans, which could explosively elevate the strength of the Saiyan race.

The Senzu Beans, said to heal all injuries and restore someone to life even if they had only a single breath left, were the true core objective of Barros's journey.

As long as he obtained the Senzu Beans, Barros was certain that within a few years, Divine Martial Battle Star would produce more than one Super Saiyan.

By then, it would be the beginning of his reign over the universe, of crushing the starry rivers of countless realms beneath his feet and standing alone above all heavens.

Earth, deep within the boundless ocean.

A solitary hundred-meter island lay quietly upon the sea.

An old man in sunglasses and a massive turtle shell on his back gazed toward the sky—there, a horrifying aura was tearing through the heavens as it bore down. Behind his sunglasses, two sharp flashes flickered.

Yet in the next moment, his shoulders slumped. He let out a long sigh, and the sharp light in his eyes vanished, leaving only bottomless helplessness.

He considered himself Earth's number one martial artist, yet before even the faintest of those auras, he was still as insignificant as dust.

It shook him to his core and filled him with even deeper disappointment.

Master Roshi did not know why these visitors from the cosmos had come, but he knew one thing very well—

This time, Earth was facing an unprecedented catastrophe.

If they harbored ill intent, Earth would be destroyed today.

And there was nothing he could do!

Whether Earth's people wished to see them or not, Barros and his group had already landed on an open stretch of land beside the sea.

The hatch burst open, and Barros emerged in procession with Bardock, Gine, Jiyande, and more than a dozen elite Saiyans.

The night sky was clear, with a full moon hanging high above. Its cold silver radiance spilled across the land.

Jiyande looked up, swept his gaze over it, and burst into loud laughter. "Who would have thought this trash planet would have a moon too? It truly is a blessed land for Saiyans!"

The other Saiyans nodded in agreement.

With a moon present, they would not need to go through the trouble of creating an artificial light source to transform into Great Apes. They only needed to look up to complete the transformation in an instant.

It seemed this planet truly was worthy of serving as a battlefield for Saiyan warriors.

At that moment, an elite Saiyan behind Jiyande flipped open the scouter over his left eye.

Beep—beep—beep!

He glanced at the numbers flashing across the screen—all below five—and immediately sneered. He shut off the detector and called out to Bardock, "Bardock, if I remember correctly, this is the planet where your son was sent on a mission, right? More than three years have passed. How are the natives still living so comfortably?"

Bardock and Gine's expressions darkened at the same time.

It was not because of the man's aggressive tone, but because they felt ashamed that their second son, Kakarot, had failed to make even the slightest impact on this barren planet, whose strongest fighter had a power level of less than eight hundred.

Then, the two sighed and shook their heads together, and that trace of displeasure scattered with the wind.

Kakarot had possessed a power level of only 2 at birth. Perhaps the natives of this planet had already finished him off just as he was about to transform into a Great Ape!

At that thought, Bardock's gaze turned icy, and killing intent uncontrollably spilled from his body.

The moment Bardock's killing intent flared out of control, Barros knew the reason at a glance.

Saiyans might have been cold-blooded and battle-hungry, but they were not truly indifferent to their blood relatives.

Idiots like Raditz were, after all, only rare exceptions.

A moment later, Barros turned back and coldly glanced at Bardock. "Bardock, close your eyes—use that terrifying power of yours, enough to crush every living thing on this planet, and search carefully. See whether there is still a Saiyan presence on this planet!"

Although Bardock and the others had yet to master the method of precisely locking onto an individual's aura, their senses had already undergone a complete transformation after cultivating the Divine Martial Battle Art.

With his astonishing power level approaching 330,000, sensing the aura of a fellow Saiyan on this tiny planet would be no difficult task.

Bardock froze for a moment, then immediately closed his eyes and focused, searching with all his strength.

But before he could catch Kakarot's aura—

A familiar, furious roar suddenly exploded from the distant horizon!

A Saiyan transforming into a Great Ape?

The thought had barely surfaced when everyone turned their eyes toward Barros.

Goku? He had already transformed into a Great Ape? Wait...

In a flash, an image crossed Barros's mind. His entire body turned into a white streak and shot straight toward the source of the roar!

As he sped away, Bardock and the others also leaped into the air in an instant, transforming into more than a dozen brilliant streaks of light as they closely pursued him.

As they flew, undisguised joy rose in both Bardock and Gine's eyes.

The only Saiyan on this planet was their second son, Kakarot. Since they had heard that unmistakable roar of a Great Ape, it meant—their son was alive!

Barros was incredibly fast. Relying on his formidable body and power, he had almost reached the top of the Great Ape's head before the roar had even faded, hovering above it as it violently trampled through the forest.

After transforming, its power level was only 60.

Barros nearly struck on the spot, determined to wipe this "disgraceful" Great Ape out of existence.

At that moment, Bardock also arrived above the Great Ape. Jiyande and the other elite Saiyans followed close behind, arriving in an instant.

Everyone looked down at the rampaging Great Ape below, but no one spoke.

With a mere power level of 60, it was actually this weak after transforming into a Great Ape. It was practically smearing mud on the face of Bardock—the strongest male Saiyan of Divine Martial Battle Star aside from Emperor Barros.

Soon after, Gine, whose power was somewhat lower, also arrived.

However, while Gine was delighted that her second son Kakarot was still alive, the moment she saw that his power level was not even 100 after transforming into a Great Ape, embarrassment immediately spread across her face, and even the tips of her ears grew hot.

Just as everyone wondered how to speak, the Saiyan Great Ape below seemed to sense something. It suddenly turned its head, its blood-red eyes locking onto Barros and the others in midair.

Roar—!!!

Before anyone could say a word, the Great Ape threw back its head and roared. It opened its mouth and fired a dazzling white ki blast straight into the sky, slashing toward Barros and the others.

As the ki blast came hurtling toward them, Bardock and Gine's faces instantly burned, while the muscles at Jiyande and the others' temples twitched involuntarily.

Though the ki blast was blindingly bright, let alone now, when every one of them had a power level exceeding one hundred thousand—even more than three years ago, this level of attack would have been too pathetic to look at.

Gine flashed forward and intercepted the ki blast first. With a sweep of her palm, she deflected the beam diagonally into the distance.

Looking down again at the increasingly frenzied Great Ape, her eyes were filled with disappointment and anxiety.

Gine knew perfectly well how highly Barros regarded Bardock.

Divine Martial Battle Star was no longer the Planet Vegeta of old, and she understood better than anyone that as long as Kakarot could be brought back to Divine Martial Battle Star and personally trained by Bardock, within a few years, the child's power would surely catch up to—or even surpass—that of lower-class Saiyans his age.